PEDESTRIANISM.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 281, 14 July 1888, Page 5

PEDESTRIANISM.

As an example ot what a good runner can do, bays the .Sydney 'Sporting Life,' Charles Samuels' performance on Monday stands oui as a record. Starting as scratch, man in the £21 handicap, at thirteen and a halt yards, and conceding as much as fifteen yards start, he fairly romped home, winning his two heats and a final like a tradesman. He also saddled up in a 100 yards handicap, on Ihe two yards mark, giving as much as thirteen yards heart, and repeated his performance, thus landing 1 the double : a great feab, truly, as he ran no less than six heats during tho afternoon. Libeau oilers to walk any man in Australia any distance, from one to twenty-rive mile&, for any part of C5OO a-sidc. C. Linden, brother of the Auckland sprint champion, under the name of ' Underwood, { won the Sheffield Handicap at the Chillein (Vie.) Festival, but on being protested against was asked to make an affidavit th it his name and performances were correct, refused to do so, and tho prize (C 175) ■went to Jack Wilkinson, who was giving Linden cloven yards. Ureat eroers seem to be coming out in America. We recoidcd lately a wonderful performance by Albert in a siv days go-as-you-please. Now we learn that at a similar exhibition held at Montreal (Canada) during the last week in May, a Canadian named Noremac downed Cartwright. the English champion. Tho scores were Noremac 344 milco, Cartwright 320 miles, while three others started, one being 98 miles behind the winner. A cable mcsiage to an American paper, dated London, May 26, says : Peter Cannon and Robert Hunter tan a three-mile race to-day at the Vicfcoiia grounds in Cavan on a track i\\ c laps to tho mile The latter icceived 350 yaids of a start. At the half mile scratch Cannon was 60 yards nearer his man, ;ind at the end of his first mile he was 130 yards closer. Cannon's time was 4 minutes 36 l-o seconds, Hunter's 5 minutes 1 second, Cradually Cannon crept bo tnc rront and passed Hunter, who showed distiess at tho twelfth lap. Hunter, quite winded, stopped at the end of the thirteenth lap. Cannon, i mining wonderfully fresh, finished in 1-1 minuted 1!K seconds. The tiack was accurately measured and strictly marked. There was no wind.